Emissions Trading System

There is a new plan about sulfur dioxide emissions reduction for " 11th Five-Year Plan" in Xiamen. Theoretically speaking, the reduction target could be achieved by emissions trading which is a cost-effective environmental management policy. So in order to provide technical support for Xiamen to achieving the plan of reduction in an economical way, the sulfur dioxide allowance trading system is established and theoretical and practical research which is about this system is carried out in this thesis.The environment, economics and other theory and methodology are used to study the emissions trading. Some main productions are achieved in this thesis as follows:1. Basing on the research about the theories and practices of emissions trading in the United States, Some reasonable proposals for Chinese emissions trading are provided in this thesis.2. Basing on the research about the theories and practices of the emissions trading both in the United States and China, the sulfur dioxide allowance trading system of power enterprises in Xiamen is established and the technical support which is achieving the sulfur dioxide reduction of the "11th Five-Year Plan" is provided in this thesis.3. The applicability of establishing the sulfur dioxide allowances trading system of power enterprises in Xiamen is analyzed and valued in this thesis. The result that establishing the emissions trading system in Xiamen is an economical and applicable way for achieving the sulfur dioxide reduction target is provided by this thesis.